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Our Lady of Good Health

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10°40′49″N 79°50′51″E / 10.6803068°N 79.847429°E / 10.6803068; 79.847429

Our Lady of Good Health
Our Lady of Vailankanni
Holy Mother of Good Health
புனித ஆரோக்கிய அன்னை
LocationVelankanni, India
Date16th and 17th century
WitnessYoung boy
TypeMarian apparition
ApprovalPending approval by the Holy See
ShrineBasilica of Our Lady of Good Health, Velankanni, India
Feast day, 8 September

Our Lady of Good Health (Template:Lang-ta Ārōkkiya annai), also known as Our Lady of Vailankanni, is the title given to the Blessed Virgin Mary by people as she twice appeared in the town of Velankanni, Tamil Nadu, India, in the 16th to 17th centuries.[1]

History

Though there is no historical document or record about the reputed apparitions of Mary at Vailankanni, only oral tradition ascertain the two apparitions in the 16th century and the saving of the Portuguese sailors from a storm in the Bay of Bengal in the 17th century.[2]

According to tradition, the first apparition is said to have occurred to a young boy delivering buttermilk to a man who lived far away. During his travels, the boy stopped to rest beside a lake that was shaded by a Banyan tree. A beautiful woman, carrying a child, is said to have appeared, and asked the boy for some milk to feed her child, which he gave. When he reached the home for his milk delivery, he apologised for the delay and that there would be less milk in his pot. But when they opened the lid of the milk pot, the container was brimming with milk.

The second apparition occurred a few years later. A lame boy would sell buttermilk to passing travellers, who would pause in the shade of a large Banyan tree, to escape the heat of the day. However, he had no customers. Suddenly, an ethereal woman, holding a child appeared before him, and asked for a cup of buttermilk. He gave her a cup, which she fed to her child. The woman asked the boy to go to Nagapattinam, and find a certain Catholic man in the town, and tell him to build a chapel at Vailankanni in her honour. Apparently cured, the boy ran to Nagapattinam, where he found the man and told him his story.

These apparitions have not been approved by the Holy See.

Basilica

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A Gothic-styled basilica stands in Velankanni in memory of the apparitions. The basilica erected by the Portuguese and the Indians stands at the site where the buttermilk seller saw Mary and Jesus.[3] The iconic depiction of the Madonna is unique in that it is one of two only icons where Mary is portrayed wearing an Indian Sari, while the other statue is said to have been buried with Aurangzeb, the Mughal Emperor .[4] The basilica is known as a site for pilgrims from all over India and its assembly of multilingual prayers every Christmas.[5]

Feast day

September 8, the Feast of the Nativity of Mary, is also commemorated as the feast of Our Lady of Good Health. The celebration starts on 29 August and ends on the day of the feast.[6] The feast day prayers are said in Tamil, Marathi, East Indian, Malayalam, Telugu, Kannada, Konkani, Hindi and English.[7]

Other churches and shrines

Australia

Canada

India

Indonesia

Malaysia

Mozambique

Portugal

Sri Lanka

United States

Movie

The Tamil language film Annai Velankanni was made in honor of Our Lady of Good Health with the title Annai Velankanni in 1971. It was directed by K. Thankappan, starring Gemini Ganesan, Kamal Haasan, K. R. Vijaya, Jayalalitha and Padmini.[11]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Vailankanni.
  • Velankanni Main Basilica and Flag during Feast
    Velankanni Main Basilica and Flag during Feast
  • Velankanni Church - Front View
    Velankanni Church - Front View
  • Velankanni Basilica - Extension - Front View
    Velankanni Basilica - Extension - Front View
  • Veilankanni Basilica - A Panoramic Side View - Church and Church Extension seen at a stretch
    Veilankanni Basilica - A Panoramic Side View - Church and Church Extension seen at a stretch
  • Veilankanni Basilica - Left side view
    Veilankanni Basilica - Left side view
  • Veilankanni Basilica - Right side view
    Veilankanni Basilica - Right side view
  • Veilankanni Basilica at Dusk
    Veilankanni Basilica at Dusk
  • Veilankanni Church Pond
    Veilankanni Church Pond
  • Pilgrims walking on their knees towards the Pond
    Pilgrims walking on their knees towards the Pond
  • Veilankanni - Adoration Center
    Veilankanni - Adoration Center
  • Velankanni Basilica
    Velankanni Basilica
  • Chapel in Nadu Thittu where Mother Mary appeared for the first time
    Chapel in Nadu Thittu where Mother Mary appeared for the first time
  • A Chapel for St Sebastian at Velankanni
    A Chapel for St Sebastian at Velankanni
  • Velankanni Church Office housing office, priests' residence and a shop
    Velankanni Church Office housing office, priests' residence and a shop

See also

References

  1. ^ Description of the miracles at the Velankanni Shrine
  2. ^ History of the Basilica on its home page Archived December 3, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ Mukherjee, Rila. 2009. 'Locality, history, memory: Vailankanni and a new geography of citizenship.' In Mukherjee, Rila and Tajesh, M.N. (eds.), Locality, History, Memory: The Making of the Citizen in South Asia, pp. 152–181. Newcastle on Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
  4. ^ R.V. Smith Mother Mary... in a sari from The Hindu
  5. ^ "History of Vailankanni
  6. ^ Velankanni festival ends with feast mass on The Hindu news
  7. ^ "Velankanni Feast Day 2018 | Our Lady Of Good Health | Vailankanni.info". Velankanni.info. Retrieved 30 August 2018.
  8. ^ Photographs of a privately erected shrine in Bangalore
  9. ^ Religious Societies in the Dioscese of Tiruchirapalli
  10. ^ http://www.kintera.org/site/apps/nl/content2.asp?c=etITK6OTG&b=309286&ct=160559
  11. ^ Our Lady of Good Health at IMDb
  12. ^ News article regarding the revival of Nuestra Señora de la Salud
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